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...their good fortune. Unless something unusual happens, the Chronicle of Philanthropy estimates that charitable contributions this year will average something like $265 per person, or 1.27% of Americans' income--a total of $108 billion. By this measure Americans are the most charitable people on earth. Even so, deep gloom suffuses the country's charitable groups. Those who help the poor and desperate believe if the budget-balancing plan goes into effect as passed by Congress, charities and their clients face a potent double whammy: a drop in direct government support for charitable organizations just as demand for their help surges...
...gone from gloom and doom to pleasant surprise," said CCA President Geneva T. Malenfant...
Figgis is a refusenik in every way. Even the neon glitz of his milieu, visual catnip to most directors, is muted. His Las Vegas is mostly low-wattage motel rooms and morning-after grayness. Cage, that most daring of actors, practically cha-chas through the gloom, high on the freedom that the loss of all amour propre bestows. Shue's character hasn't yet reached that heady state. She's engaged in a complex struggle between self-awareness and self-destruction. One has only the smallest hope for her. And none at all for the commercial fate of a movie...
Despite the reasons for gloom or discouragement, 85% of U.S. Catholics say their religion is very important or fairly important in their lives, according to a new TIME/CNN poll conducted last week (see box). A 1994 survey by the Los Angeles Times shows that priests and sisters are comparably satisfied. Skeptics might argue that Catholics who were not content have left the church, thus eluding the pollsters. But the ranks of those defectors have not been growing in recent years. Father Andrew M. Greeley is popularly known as the author of steamy best-selling novels, but he is also...
...actors, among them Gwyneth Paltrow as the young cop's wife (whom we immediately perceive as good, and therefore doomed), do their best to ground this twaddle in recognizable behavior. But it is very tiresome peering through the gloom trying to catch a glimpse of something interesting, then having to avert one's eyes when it turns out to be just another brutally tormented body...